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Salesforce Data Architect Certification Guide

By : Aaron Allport
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Salesforce Data Architect Certification Guide

By: Aaron Allport

Overview of this book

The Salesforce Data Architect is a prerequisite exam for the Application Architect half of the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential. This book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the Salesforce Data Architect exam so you can take it with confidence. The book is written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment and practice exam questions, covering all the topics necessary to help you pass the exam with ease. You’ll understand the theory around Salesforce data modeling, database design, master data management (MDM), Salesforce data management (SDM), and data governance. Additionally, performance considerations associated with large data volumes will be covered. You’ll also get to grips with data migration and understand the supporting theory needed to achieve Salesforce Data Architect certification. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll have covered everything you need to know to pass the Salesforce Data Architect certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to re-visit the concepts.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: Salesforce Data Architect Theory
9
Section 2: Salesforce Data Architect Design
15
Section 3: Applying What We've Learned – Practice Questions and Revision Aids

How to call an API

While the design and implementation of APIs is out of the scope of this book, we’ll briefly cover how to call an API, namely the Salesforce REST API. At a high-level, an API is essentially a request to an endpoint (a URL) with an XML or JSON body (known as the request payload). The endpoint will return a response payload, which may be XML or JSON depending on how it is configured.

Let’s cover what calling a REST API looks like, and examine the request and response payloads as we do. For this, we’re going to use an online utility called Workbench, which is a free-to-use web application for interacting with your Salesforce instance. Note that it is not an official Salesforce product, and therefore support is limited.

To begin, open a web browser and navigate to the URL https://workbench.developerforce.com/login.php

Next, click the checkbox to agree to the terms and conditions, and click the Login with Salesforce button:

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